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Sep 24, 2008 · That science is fundamentally universal has been proclaimed innumerable times. But the precise geographical meaning of this universality has changed historically. This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and ‘the West’. These views are confronted with ...
- Geert J. Somsen
- g.somsen@history.unimaas.nl
- 2008
Mar 10, 2024 · Accordingly, the primary objective of this HAR Special Focus Section is to present a series of propositions, methodological challenges, and conceptual problems that reveal the rich potential that a historiography of the ethnosciences—conceptualized as “Science and Its Others”—possesses for the history and epistemology of anthropology and its complicated relationship with the sciences.
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- Socialist Internationalism
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That science is fundamentally universal has been proclaimed innumer-able times. But the precise geographical meaning of this universality has changed historically. This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and ‘the ...
Yet the Olympic model would fade. What made it give way was not the war and the tensions it created. It was the rise between the two world wars of a wholly different kind of scientific internationalism—one that espoused a different relation between science and nationalism and a different role of science in the world. Some of this change was foresha...
In a recent essay, Lorraine Daston has argued that a main function of the history of science since the Enlightenment has been ‘European self-portraiture’ (Daston 2006). It is instructive to see whether the changing (historical and non-historical) conceptions of science reviewed in this article fit her general picture. Some qualifications can be mad...
Geert Somsen is assistant professor in history of science. After a PhD in the history of chemistry, his current work focuses on socialist conceptions of science in the twentieth century and on scientific internationalism. With Harmke Kamminga, he edited Pursuing the Unity of Science: Scientific Practice and Ideology between the Great War and the Co...
- Geert J. Somsen
- 2008
Now I am going to speak about the third aspect of the uni- versality of science, the historical aspect, and how the history of science can help us to share a more universal idea of science. Modern science emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as western Europe experi- enced a departure from some age-old habits of thought.
This first lecture by Dr. Hakob Barseghyan at the University of Toronto introduces key questions in the history and philosophy of science. According to popular science mythology, real science begins with the scientific revolution when science liberated itself from religion. According to this story, scientists like Galileo were persecuted ...
Aug 9, 2007 · 1.3 German tradition since Kant. For Kant, one of the functions of philosophy was to determine the precise unifying scope and value of each science. For him, the unity of science is not the reflection of a unity found in nature, or, even less, assumed in a real world behind the apparent phenomena.
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Jun 21, 2020 · In this theoretical paper, I argue that whether science is universal or culture-specific endeavor is a nature of science (NOS) question that needs to be explored critically by learners in a science classroom. Delimiting the discussion to precollege (secondary) science education, I discuss the educational benefits of such a proposal and evaluate its potential from a perspective of developing ...
